Identification

Published titles

English: Madame Zborowska (Oslo); Woman; Madame Zborowska.
French: Jeune fille.

Date

1918 in Lanthemann and Parisot. Pfannstiel dates the canvas late 1916–17.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

54.7 × 37.7 cm (Nasjonalmuseet). This investigation had recorded 55 × 38 cm. The museum titles the canvas Young Woman, dates it 1918, and records Anna (Hanka) Zborowska as the depicted person while noting that the sitter is probably unidentified. Gift of the Friends of the National Gallery, 1947 (inv. NG.M.02128).

Signature

Signed modigliani at top left.

Present location

Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, Oslo (inv. NG.M.02128). Gift of the Friends of the National Gallery, 1947.

Catalogue numbers

Legal note on MR: This investigation has not had access to MR’s catalogue raisonné; all research here is based on open sources, publications and exhibitions. By no means has that catalogue been copied at any point. Modigliani Project and Modigliani Initiative are marked YES when the work is published or otherwise recorded by those projects, even if no catalogue number is assigned; otherwise the field is marked ?.

Provenance

1. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris.
2. Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo (inv. NG.M.02128), gift of the Friends of the National Gallery, 1947.

The sequence follows the published museum, sale, and catalogue record in this investigation. Gaps and uncertain transfers are marked as such.

Selected bibliography

Book-length publications are marked with a footnote giving a full citation. Exhibition catalogues appear in both this list and the exhibition list when this investigation recorded them in both places. Where this investigation listed a long run of secondary mentions, only the principal catalogues and museum or sale references are retained here.

• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929 presumed catalogue, p. 33.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 201, as Jeune fille, dated late 1916–17.²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 255, as Portrait de jeune femme (la Zborowska), dated 1918.³
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 29/1918, as Portrait de Madame Zborowska.⁴
• Richard Shone, Levin Collection catalogue, 2002, p. 139, pl. 67.

Exhibitions

• Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, 1959, no. 28.
• Tokyo and Kyoto, 1968, no. 51.
• Liège, Musée Saint-Georges, 1980, no. 16.
• Barcelona and Madrid, 1983, no. 30 (Parisot).

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers.

Absent from Ceroni and Patani.

This investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where sources disagree, both readings are given.